Book Description

" ... fictional portrayal of her short and tragic life. She and her siblings were fathered by Count Cenci, who had no love for his children, except for when Beatrice reached her teens, when he developed incestuous feelings towards her. Whether or not Beatrice Cenci played a part in her father's murder, owing to his perverted desires towards her, she and three other family members took the blame, were horrifically tortured to confess their crime, and she and two of the other three were ultimately beheaded, such was the horrific justice system of sixteenth-century Italy."--Goodreads